ive seen that story on ripley's believe it or not methinks. the first run was a test run on a more conventional mountain bike. he broke the speed record on his test run. then he used a fancy "sciency" speed bike and it disintegrated on a small bump. ... in other words... he ate shit.

"A day in the life of an average working Jill, broken down into its minutest component parts. The unstated joke: mankind has erected immense, resource-devouring systems of almost incomprehensible complexity just so you can sit in your cubicle." -triceratops111